Multi-million pound brand Good Natured Fruit is marketed in Asda and Sainsbury's as 'pesticide free', but the company now admits it allows chemicals to be used during plants' life-cycle
… | 21st September 2009 News Food And Farming Pesticides Good Natured Fruit … of £2.5m in 2008, do not use or contain any pesticides. However, an Ecologist … Natured Fruits is grown without the use of pesticides,' says the Angus-based company …
Hers was a landmark victory against the Government. Campaigner Georgina Downs on the importance of setting a policy precedent on pesticides
… action against UK Government over toxic crop pesticides Georgina Downs | 29th January 2009 … Regulation Agribusiness Farming Pests And Pesticides Risk Food And Health UK Pesticides Health Politics And Economics …
Canadian scientist Dr Pierre Mineau talks about the ongoing struggle to protect birds from pesticides that 'don't belong in this millennium'
… Pierre Mineau: let's get rid of the pesticides that are killing birds Laura Sevier … December 2009 Comment Natural World Wildlife Pesticides Birds DDT Organophosphorus PAN … the ongoing struggle to protect birds from pesticides that 'don't belong in this …
US study finds pesticide link to childhood leukemia and calls for more research
… And Farming Society Take Action Campaigns pesticides.jpg US study finds pesticide link … been found to have higher levels of household pesticides in their body, according to a study … children and mothers. Common household pesticides were found in the urine of more …
Tests on Parkinson's sufferers have revealed a high incidence and levels of the organochloride pesticide beta-HCH, holding out the hope of a blood test to catch the disease early
… were testing for traces of 15 organochloride pesticides. Published in the journal Archives … cent in Alzheimer’s sufferers. Organochloride pesticides were widely used from the 1950s to … harmful chemical. The researchers said pesticides were only one contributing factor …
Pesticides campaigner Georgina Downs has seen her high court victory against the Government overturned by a court of appeal, but vows to take her campaign to the House of Lords
… 'Whitewash' at court of appeal for pesticides campaigner The Ecologist | 9th July … Campaigns Investigations Food And Farming Pesticides DEFRA Georgina Downs Health Hilary … ruling on the illegality of the Government's pesticides policy has been overturned at the …
Early falls in pesticide use on GM crops in the United States have been replaced by rapid increases according to study
… | 17th November 2009 News Gm Food And Farming Pesticides Chemical gmspraying.jpg Pesticide … has led to an extra 318 million pounds of pesticides being used by farmers. The report, … an overall figure of 318 pounds of additional pesticides being used. The rate of increase in …
A former Washington scientific adviser has called for a worldwide ban on neonicotinoid pesticides that have been implicated in the decline of the honeybee population.
… Natural World Science And Technology Bees Pesticides inthenews.jpg A former Washington … called for a worldwide ban on neonicotinoid pesticides that have been implicated in the … be taken very seriously. ‘Neonicotinoid pesticides are the most toxic pesticides ever …
Previous calls to ban neonicotinoids have been turned down by the UK government because of lack of evidence
… The Ecologist | 14th September 2009 News Bees Pesticides Neonicotinoids Food And Farming … groups have repeated calls for neonicotinoid pesticides to be banned because of their … to honey bee populations . Neonicotinoid pesticides are a comparatively new group of …
Using the term 'pesticides' generically can mislead and confuse
… Letters gmspraying.jpg Using the term 'pesticides' generically can mislead and … to the improper use of the generic word 'pesticides' which includes all the 'cides'. The misuse of 'pesticides' in the press, especially in …
The pesticide industry knows all too well that nature quickly develops immunity to its chemical armoury. But a new study by scientists at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia (IGC) and the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon, in Portugal has shown that a species of worm can develop resistance to a common pesticide in just 20 generations, or 80 days.
… The Ecologist | 2nd February 2009 News Worms Pesticides Research Immunity Tidal Dams …
The economies of whole islands in the Caribbean face ruin if the WTO, acting at the behest of US-owned multinationals, forces the EU to end preferential trade agreements with small-scale West Indian banana producers
… | 13th January 2009 News Agriculture Bananas Pesticides Free Trade Free Trade Supermarkets … cow and the tortoise are facing extinction. Pesticides are killing off the algae on which … yields and, with liberal applications of pesticides, the smooth, uniform, cosmetically …
How can we be healthy on a sick planet? Especially when many still believe that health is unaffected by what is in the environment. These organisations could save your life
… In The Maternity Services Mercola Uk Pesticides Campaign What Doctor’s Don’t Tell … reports such as The Shoppers’ Guide to Pesticides in Produce . EWG also campaigns for … www.mercola.com www.drbriffa.com UK Pesticides Campaign Campaigner Georgina Downs’ …
If you don't know what's gone into making your drink, stick to organic beer and wine this Christmas, says Pat Thomas
… Green Living Behind The Label Alcohol Pesticides wine_web.jpg If you don't know … grown grapes rely heavily on the use of pesticides and synthetic fertilisers. Earlier … found traces of as many as 10 different pesticides in wines on sale in the EU. Lab …
Fresh, convenient, versatile or overpriced leaves soaked in pesticides and produced by slave labour?
… versatile or overpriced leaves soaked in pesticides and produced by slave labour? In an … producers in the UK are fairly coy about what pesticides they use. So, I spoke to an … I also have to advise growers to use more pesticides than I would like, because if there …
In 1962, Rachel Carson's famous exposé of the environmental impacts of the pesticide DDT rocked the chemical industry. Today, Carson's European legacy - the REACH legislation - ought to safeguard public health. But will it?
… Politics And Economics Food And Farming DDT Pesticides Rachel Carson Silent Spring … the damage to the environment being caused by pesticides, particularly the toxic effects of … Company of Chicago, a manufacturer of pesticides, threatened Carson’s publisher with …
Monsanto’s global website says: ‘Imagine innovative agriculture that creates "incredible" things today.’ Actually, I think most of us are more interested in ‘credible’ things when it comes to agriculture. Like food that people can trust is safe. And crops that meet the needs of the farmers that grow them. The Monsanto slogan used to be ‘food, health, hope’. As if this wasn’t absurd enough, it has now been changed to ‘Imagine™’. John Lennon must be turning in his grave.
… Imagine…food without pesticides …seeds without patents …a future … 1st September 2004 Comment Monsanto In-built Pesticides Bacteria Genetical Monsanto … crops producing foods with in-built pesticides. Imagine the world’s staple food …
A Government adviser has called for the regulatory overhaul on genetically modified crops in the EU and opposes the ‘strange’ ban on pesticides.
… The Ecologist | 1st March 2009 News GM Crops Pesticides Politics And Economics Honeybee … in the EU and opposes the ‘strange’ ban on pesticides. The Government’s chief scientific … opinion on the recent landmark EU ruling on pesticides, which could see a number of the …
Neonicotinoid pesticides are killing our honeybees. Sign the Soil Association petition to help get it banned. Then take part in Twitter's 'Tweehive' - starting on 14th July
… World Bees Colony Collapse Disorder CCD Pesticides Neonicotinoids … ta-protect-our-bees.jpg Neonicotinoid pesticides are killing our honeybees. Sign the … To find out more, click here . So why are pesticides that have been shown to kill …
Jordans cereals founder Bill Jordan says his company's method of farming can feed the world and safeguard biodiversity
… a ‘B-grade’ version of organic farming, as pesticides are not completely banned. But … about GM food and why he is in favour of some pesticides. Tom Levitt: Why did you start … BigBuzz , make no mention of neonicotinoid pesticides (which have been linked to bee …
What's the real price of your bouquet? Pat Thomas dishes the dirt on cut flower production in less-industrialised countries
… dangerous chemicals. A vast range of pesticides, fertilisers and fumigants are used … we know that mixtures of chemicals such as pesticides can have a more potent adverse … not on the MPS-Code 2006 list (the list of pesticides registered in Ethiopia) and …
Agri-chemical companies like Syngenta don’t just make the chemicals that have been blamed for the decline in bees; they also breed the bees that are being used as a replacement for wild pollinators
… once again blames the spread of neonicotinoid pesticides for the decline in honeybee … giant Syngenta, which produces neonicotinoid pesticides, announced the joint funding of a … said the research was ‘not going to look at pesticides’. The bee-breeding industry But …
Despite lobbying from the pesticide industry, the US Environmental Protection Agency has said it will continue with a ban on the toxic insecticide carbofuran.
… are still underestimating the risk posed by pesticides. Research published in the journal … concluded that children whose parents use pesticides, herbicides or fungicides around …
The fashion industry listens to shoppers, even if governments don't. Use your power as a consumer to make safer, organic cotton more widely available:
… Action Campaigns Consumerism Pests And Pesticides Organics Companies Human Rights Pesticides Green Living Natural World … in advertising, one quarter of ALL farming pesticides are used in the manufacture of …